I have often seen a cat without a grin - but a grin without a cat - remember the cat kept appearing and disappearing slowly bit by bit.

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

Be sure the safest rule is that we should not dare to live in any scene in which we dare not die.

I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I do know that, since it came out, something like a dozen story-books have appeared, on identically the same pattern. The path I timidly explored believing myself to be 'the first that ever burst into that silent sea'-is now a beaten high-road: all the way-side flowers have long ago been trampled into the dust: and it would be courting disaster for me to attempt that style again.